Category: Football

In the aftermath of the two matches between the Leone Stars and the Super Eagles I have refused to make any comments. I have been besieged with questions about why I have remained silent. I am surprised that people are surprised that I...

I read this morning that Fatai Amao, ‘Arsenal’, one of the most brilliant midfielders of his generation in the 1980s, a player who, with his silky touches on the ball and immaculate dribbling skills, could have played for any club in...

I was a member of the Professional Football Implementation Committee that developed and established the policies and the structures for the take-off and running of the professional league in Nigeria. The committee designed a business template for football that other...

Sport is presently slave labour in Nigeria. Without exaggerating, and I am asserting with all sense of responsibility, most athletes in the Nigerian domestic sport landscape are living in poverty. The evidence is all around us in the level of...

When you do not know where you are coming from, how would you know where you are going? You cannot chart a course to any destination as any movement in any direction will be groping in the darkness of uncertainty....

It is Thursday morning as I write this. I am thinking about Emmanuel Ndubuisi Egbo, the little-known Nigerian International goalkeeper (represented the country about a dozen times between 1998 and 2002), who played his professional football mostly in the little-known...